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What is with the lemmy community's deep fear or tankies? (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/chat@hexbear.net
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There's dozens or harassment communities, if you say anything that's not pure, weapons grade condemnation of anything USSR or AES nuts accusations start getting levelled.

Internet communists have to be like the most irrelevant political bloc in the world. Even if you take the stance that everyone is hoping for a return of purges that's still just a completely irrelevant group. Most people I've seen being accused of tankyness is are more nuanced.

Wtf is going on. I thought it would settle down after the reddit migration faded.

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[–] 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What even is the point of being a fucking socialist and then talking shit about the countries who actually achieved/are achieving it?

We commies are absolutely nowhere near the levers of power in the west but the fear that liberals have for us you’d think that I have a gun to Pelosi’s head as I type this.

Hating tankies is a symptom of being so used to losing that anybody who speaks good ideas and shows a clear and definitive path to success as a people (not country, not race, but people) threatens the comfortable safety blanket of being the obscure hipster in the room.

“Nooo I hate to win, I like to be given wedgies!!” Grow up.

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  • [–] [S] 54 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is a large part of my frustration. I'm in Aussieland and everyone here is like mad brain wormed about "red" china.

    People who are entirely willing to be like: "yeah so the Australian state is pretty shit, kinda a lapdog to the usa, democracy is mostly notional, the foundation of australia legally is fraudulent and we need treaty and truthtelling. Still there are some good things, the government provides some OK systems, society is quite safe and peaceful. We need to acknowledge the good to legitimise criticisms of the bad"

    Will melt down if you're like "so the chinese people are actually relatively happy with their government, much more than we are here, and the enormous improvement in standard of living clearly indicates that something is going well for the proles over yonder. Why do you think we only ever hear about the bad? Why do you think there is such a misalignment between how we think people should think of the government and how they do?"

    Fuck me for trying to understand the world I guess.

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